Huge fan of tmobile (largely because I get no dropped calls and 3MB/s) - not such a big fan of sprint. I left sprint to go to tmobile :D
As long as they keep the speed, sim cards and the ability to drop a sim into a cheap pay-as-you-go phone (for when your phone is broken), I'll be ok with it.
Yes, you're exactly correct. Having only 3 national carriers probably will not be good for consumers, especially when the two cheapest are joining forces.
Yep. Basically all of the ghetto cellular carriers (Sprint, Nextel and T-Mobile) will be one entity. The only ones missing are US Cellular, MetroPCS and Cricket.
The new large entity will be overly bureaucratic and will have to raise prices to be Verizon and AT&T's levels. Except that the new entity will not be able to compete with Verizon (quality) or AT&T (iPhone exclusivity).
@SolidSnake Well, I definitely want Tmobile to keep the low prices and the GSM. These are 2 of the major reasons I love TMO... Sprint is WAY more expensive to get any sort of service. Also, the lack of a SIM would really suck, since phones (and towers) sometimes have reliability issues. I love being able to pop my SIM card into my 'backup phone' from 2004 - makes calls with no issues and has battery life of about a week.
Maybe I'm just cheap, but T-Mobile's prices are right, and everything else is just too expensive. I think this merger would definitely result in higher prices, even if there is better coverage.
@wintersolstice "As long as they keep the speed, sim cards and the ability to drop a sim into a cheap pay-as-you-go phone (for when your phone is broken), I'll be ok with it."
I was looking for a sim in my Evo 4g but no-where to be found :(
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The two most inexpensive carriers join forces.
Badass.
@SolidSnake
Huge fan of tmobile (largely because I get no dropped calls and 3MB/s) - not such a big fan of sprint. I left sprint to go to tmobile :D
As long as they keep the speed, sim cards and the ability to drop a sim into a cheap pay-as-you-go phone (for when your phone is broken), I'll be ok with it.
@SolidSnake
Less competition can only result in higher prices, hell these guys are all practically in collusion as it is.
@wraith404
Yes, you're exactly correct. Having only 3 national carriers probably will not be good for consumers, especially when the two cheapest are joining forces.
Yep. Basically all of the ghetto cellular carriers (Sprint, Nextel and T-Mobile) will be one entity. The only ones missing are US Cellular, MetroPCS and Cricket.
The new large entity will be overly bureaucratic and will have to raise prices to be Verizon and AT&T's levels. Except that the new entity will not be able to compete with Verizon (quality) or AT&T (iPhone exclusivity).
@SolidSnake
The Two cheapest carriers merge to survive.
Yeah, this has really bad idea written all over it.
Ask the around 3.2 Million Nextel customers just in the Northeast region that bailed on Sprextel.
@PeterB
Hey, your Sprint got in my T-Mobile!
No way, your T-Mobile got in my Sprint!
@Elranzer
That was the dumbest comment I read all month.
@SolidSnake Well, I definitely want Tmobile to keep the low prices and the GSM. These are 2 of the major reasons I love TMO... Sprint is WAY more expensive to get any sort of service. Also, the lack of a SIM would really suck, since phones (and towers) sometimes have reliability issues. I love being able to pop my SIM card into my 'backup phone' from 2004 - makes calls with no issues and has battery life of about a week.
Maybe I'm just cheap, but T-Mobile's prices are right, and everything else is just too expensive. I think this merger would definitely result in higher prices, even if there is better coverage.
@wintersolstice "As long as they keep the speed, sim cards and the ability to drop a sim into a cheap pay-as-you-go phone (for when your phone is broken), I'll be ok with it."
I was looking for a sim in my Evo 4g but no-where to be found :(